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Re: Pixel graphics text alignment

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jul 04, 1999
• 496 views

On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Irv
>  What I was thinking is that not paying any attention to what a column
>  contains each concatenated piece would be the same size and that
>  would align the columns, which might not be the same as sprintf function.
> Bernie

If you concatenate without "padding" the fields, then they will be different
sizes:
adam  (4 letters)
jefferson (9 letters)
so the following column won't line up
adam 123
jefferson 123

If instead you use sprintf("%-12s %3d",{name,number})
then you get
adam+8  spaces then the number
jefferson+3 spaces then the number.

That lines things up _if_ you are using a monospaced typeface.
adam         123
jefferson    123
Even this won't line the numbers up if you use a proportional font.
(They don't line up on my e-mail client, for example, because it uses a
proportional font. The two ff's take up less width than the m, for
example).

Irv